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Like earlier fables, this modern-day story stars a monster (Robert John Burke). Bored with evolution and disgusted with society, the monster has retreated to an abandoned Navy bunker on the northern coast of Iceland, where he spends his eternity drinking, skulking and occasionally eating a nearby villager. The film opens with a close-up of his ranting face, setting the tone of the whole story—erratic, rambling and poignant in spite of incoherence. Both the monster and the movie speak with the same intensity and the occasional wisdom of a lonely bum in a bus terminal...
...hero, Beatrice, is a cub reporter at a major New York daily. An orphan with no one in the world except her fiancé, she goes looking for him after he disappears on assignment in Iceland. Her search for him leads to a series of bizarre but plausible misadventures, culminating in an excruciating spine operation in a Reykjavik hospital, where she is mothered by a kind surgeon (played with quiet warmth by Julie Christie). Fully recovered from her injuries, she sets out to find the remote village where her boyfriend was last seen alive, only to be drugged by villagers...
Another unanswered existential problem: Why, if he has lived since the beginning of time and currently resides in upper Iceland, does the monster talk like a New York cabbie? The long, drawn-out conversation between Beatrice and the monster confirms the suspicion that this film is determined to dreamily meander as it pleases...
...latest generation, ATMs are being wired to the World Wide Web. These machines can pay insurance premiums and utility bills, print cashier's checks and road maps, and sell everything from stocks to DVDs. ATM users have bought tickets to a David Bowie concert in Iceland and soccer matches in Spain. Customers in Singapore can apply for a car title. In the U.S., Wells Fargo has installed 1,100 souped-up ATMs in 16 Western states that can show movie trailers and the MSNBC news ticker, run streaming-video ads during transactions and spit out coupons before the customer...
University President Lawrence H. Summers acknowledged Wiley's death in a statement Thursday night, saying his "loss leaves a tremendous void." Wiley's wife, Katrin Valgeirsdottir, is in Iceland and could not be reached for comment...